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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. \V. CURTIS, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE WHEELER &VILSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

.SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,140, dated July 18,1882.

Application filed December 15, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concernBe it known that I, GEORGE H. W. (loans, of Brooklyn, county of Kings,State of New York, have invented a new and useful Im- 5 provement inSuspenders, which is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a plain piece ofleather; Fig. 2, a piece of leather with a cord or braid r stitched asindicated by the dotted lines; Fig. 3, the same turned into a loop andthe woven edges connected by a zigzag stitch; Fig. 4, the leather withcord or braid on both edges in position to be stitched as shown in Fig.2;

Fig. 5, the same after they are stitched; Fig. 6, the same turned into aloop, crossed, and united as in Fig. 3.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction ofSuspender-ends.

It consists in making composite suspenderends composed of a narrowstripof leather and fibrous cord or braid sewed to the edge or edges of thesame, the so-braided leather strip being then folded edge to edge, andthe ends 2 5 may be crossed, if preferred, so as to form a loop, and theadjoining edges of the braid sewed together ed gewise to constitute thecenter of the Suspender-ends.

1 am aware that suspenders have been made 0 with ends not requiring theworking of button-holes of leather and also of woven materials; but theyhave not heretofore been united.

A is the leather; B, the cord or braid, G, the through-and-tbroughstitches uniting the cord or braid to the leather; D l), the over- 5seaming or zigzag stitches uniting the cords to form the loops. The cordis united to the leather not by stitching one upon another, like abinding, but by passing the needle and thread laterallythrough bothsubstances placed edge wise to each other, in the manner shown in therecent Letters Patent, No. 248,293, to the applicant. A single operationsecures a woven fabric to one or both edges of the leather.

The advantages ofthis construction, besides 5 doing away with theworking of a button-hole, are that the firmness, strength, anddurability of a leather suspender are secured with the softness, beauty,and flexibility of woven materials, and desirable ornamentation is atthe same time economically attained.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- A composite suspender-end composed of a continuous narrow stripoflea-ther and a fibrous cord or braid sewed to the inner edge of saidleather strip and sewed together to unite the edges and form the centerof such suspenderend, substantially as before set forth.

GEORGE H. WV. CURTIS.

Witnesses:

S. J GoRDoN, JOHN W. RIPLEY.

